Billie Bird
Nascimento : 1908-02-28, Pocatello, Idaho
Morte : 2002-11-27
História
Vaudeville comedienne Billie Bird Sellen was discovered at an orphanage at the age of eight years and hired to tour theater circuits with a vaudeville troupe. During the Vietnam War she accompanied 12 USO tours entertaining the troops in the war zone in the 1960s and 1970s. She had worked as recently as 1995 when she appeared in Jury Duty (1995), starring Pauly Shore. Other notable performances were in Dennis the Menace (1993) and Home Alone (1990).
One of her best-known film appearances was in the 1968 movie The Odd Couple (1968). Her last appearance was a cameo in 1997 in the short-lived television comedy George & Leo (1997) with Judd Hirsch and Bob Newhart. She had also been a regular from 1988-1992 in the sitcom Dear John (1988), and in a series of performances as a cheerful and sassy senior citizen in such productions as Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) and Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987).
Date of Death: 27 November 2002, Granada Hills (Alzheimer's disease)
Rose
O comediante Shore, do recente "Malucos Por Natureza", e Tommy, jovem desempregado e mimado pela avo, mas que recebe um ultimato do pai: ou arranja um emprego, ou acabaram-se as mordomias em casa. Desta forma, Tommy acaba como jurado em um caso de assassinato, porque esta e uma forma de conseguir comida e hotel gratuitamente. Mas para manter os privilegios ele decide prolongar o julgamento tanto quanto possível. Destaque para a bela Carrere, como o interesse romantico de Tommy.
Edith Butterwell
A Sra. Wilson aceita hospedar o pestinha Dennis em sua casa enquanto os pais dele viajam. Ela só não imagina que o garoto é capaz de tantas travessuras, incluindo a destruição do premiado jardim que seu marido, o Sr. Wilson, cultiva há décadas.
Mrs. Yabledablov
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Woman in Airport
Kevin McCallister, de oito anos, torna-se, da noite para o dia, o homem da casa! Deixado acidentalmente para trás pela sua família nas férias de Natal, Kevin ocupa-se a decorar a casa, mas não com luzes e azevinho. Dois ladrões desastrados tentam assaltar a casa e Kevin monta uma quantidade impressionante de armadilhas para lhes dar as boas-vindas!
Mrs. Stanwyck
Esse louco grupo de policiais é chamado para uma missão: Acabar com uma gangue que rouba bancos e joalherias. Usando o talento para trapalhadas de cada um deles, eles enfrentarão o bando de criminosos. Sob a falsa suspeita de que algum espião esteja infiltrado em seu Distrito Policial, o capitão Harris contribui para que a situação se agrave ainda mais.
Lillian Darling
This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his deathbed) stars as head of the studio. Includes parodies of everything from silent comedies to porn, including an ultra violent "three stooges" style comedy team who put a new spin on the eye poking gag.
Mary Morrissey
O famoso comediante de mil expressões, Ernest P. Worrell, tenta ajudar Papai Noel durante a noite de Natal. Ele acaba criando situações absurdas e entrando em loucas aventuras. Quando o Bom Velhinho se aposenta, é para Ernest que pede ajuda.
Mrs. Feldman
Um novo grupo de recrutas chega à Academia de Polícia e desta vez eles são voluntários civis, que aderiram ao plano "O cidadão se defende", do Comandante Lassard. Mas apesar de ter apoio governamental, o Capitão Harris está determinado em ver o plano fracassar, pois crê que os policiais podem perder seus empregos depois de algum tempo.
Psychic
A failed window dresser exploits a being with rat-like features in an effort to make money.
Grandma
Hoops McCann (John Cusack) é o filho de um craque do basquete, mas após se formar no colegial só sonha ser um bom cartunista e em escrever e ilustrar uma história de amor. Além disto deseja entrar na escola de arte. Para ajudá-lo a encontrar seu objetivo George Calamari (Joel Murray), um amigo, o convida para passar o verão em na ilha de Nantucket. Na viagem eles se metem em confusões quando salvam Cassandra Eldrich (Demi Moore) de um bando de motoqueiros. Na ilha Hoops e George, juntamente com os amigos de George, tentam ajudar Cassandra, pois ela precisa pagar três mil dólares da hipoteca da casa do seu avô em uma semana, sendo que se não conseguir a casa irá para os Beckersted, uma gananciosa família que pretende despejar pessoas para construir no lugar um restaurante de luxo.
Bea
Para evitar o perigo do desemprego, casal do Arizona simula a adoção de duas crianças. Mas o contato com os pequenos é tão bom que, tempos depois, passam a querer adotá-los.
Dorthy Baker
Samantha Baker, uma adolescente que está completando 16 anos, sonha em namorar um colega que, infelizmente, namora uma linda jovem. Além disso, em virtude do casamento de sua irmã mais velha seu aniversário é totalmente esquecido e, como desgraça pouca é bobagem, um garoto começa a assediá-la de forma inconveniente.
Older Woman
An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.
The Hospital Staff - Flower Lady
An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet; and there's a mafioso on the loose disguised as a woman.
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry's girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them. As Harry gets closer to finishing his degree, he finds his iconoclastic attitude increasingly aligned with the students rather than the faculty.
Chambermaid (uncredited)
Com o fim de seu casamento de 12 anos, Felix vai morar no apartamento de Oscar, seu amigo e também divorciado. O problema é que Felix é fanático por limpeza e cheio de manias, enquanto Oscar é completamente desleixado e despreocupado. Adaptação de Neil Simon a partir uma peça de teatro de sua própria autoria.
Os Nova-Yorquinos Paul Bratter e Corie Bratter, née os Banks, acabam de se casar. Ele, um empertigado que começa sua carreira como advogado. Ela, uma mulher de mente independente que se orgulha de fazer o estritamente ilógico puramente pela aventura, coisas como andar pelo Washington Square Park descalça quando está -8° C lá fora. Sua lua de mel de seis dias no Hotel Plaza mostra que eles podem se dar bem no sentido bíblico. Mas eles vão saber se podem conviver na vida real quando se mudam para sua primeira morada, um aconchegante (na verdade, pequeno), ligeiramente decrépito apartamento na cobertura de um predinho de cinco andares. Enquanto Corie, alegremente, sobe e desce as escadas, Paul, sempre sem fôlego, odeia o fato de ter que subir os seis andares, se incluirmos as escadas da fachada. Além dos problemas com o apartamento em si, Paul e Corie terão relações com uma estranha coleção de vizinhos.
Party Guest (uncredited)
A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. Alva and Owen then try to escape Alva's mother's (Hazel) clutches and the town's revenge.
A Hillbilly hits the big time in Las Vegas.
Mrs. Prattle
Unwitting pickup artist Jack Coley (Jack Hogan) nabs a briefcase holding a costly scientific formula, turning himself into a moving target for owner Alan Sheridan (John Baer), foreign agents and the fuzz -- all bent on a blistering game of finders, keepers. In this stylized crime drama, the quarry coolly eludes the pack while eliciting the aid of an unlikely party: blonde beauty Nan Baker (June Kenney), the attaché's original carrier.
Mrs. Jefferson
Unmarried teenage lovers turn to desperate measures after their clandestine tryst results in an unplanned pregnancy.
Woman (uncredited)
Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion.
Drunk's Wife
Director Hugo Haas reprises the theme of romantic love in this routine yet innocent story of matchmaking. The setting is an overcrowded tenement building in which the residents seem to live beyond the reach of muggers or drug dealers or trigger-happy gangs because they mingle and mix in the halls as they energetically interact with each other.
Gertie
A young, sweet girl from the country moves to Los Angeles with her mother and meets a young man who she thinks is just perfect. That is until she gets pregnant and he's on his way to jail.
Ticket Seller / Cashier (uncredited)
Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker. A broken alcoholic, Joe is brought back from the abyss by his faithful piano player, Austin Mack, who helps turn the former singer into a successful stand-up comedian. But Joe's demons plague his romantic life even as he reaches new heights of success.
Katie
When a man confesses to his wife that he has been unfaithful, she imagines all the different ways that historical figures such as Cleopatra and Joan of Arc might handle the situation.
Essie
Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.
Pearl
A plumber's secretary poses as the daughter of a prominent society couple.
Gertie
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.
Mona Lizzie (uncredited)
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
Rosie
Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.
Racetrack Bettor on Iron Bar (uncredited)
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
Mugsy
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.
